UN Officials DEBUNK Israeli Lies - No Weapons Found In UN Facilities

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75. Vacant =/= abandoned.

My school is currently vacant.

Not just because it's Sunday, mind you. It's completely closed 3 days a week.

It's sort of open a few hours a day, 4 days a week, and the only people there are a few maintenance workers and administrators. 15 people for a building that handles 4000 students. It's pretty much vacant when it's "open," and that's perhaps 20 hours week.

It's summer. And it's used neither for summer school nor for "enrichment activities" like camp. That's more of an elementary school camp. (But, like many UNRWA schools, it's not a stand-alone campus. Cross the road and you're at an elementary school. Jump the fence behind our track and you're in the adjacent middle school's baseball diamond. I walk to pick up my kid at his elementary school; administrators and staff often park at the middle school because we have a parking crunch at the high school.)

When you start arguing for or against facts to sustain a moral principle, you stop arguing about facts and start arguing primarily moral principle. A fact is then "good" or "bad", not "true and relevant" or "false and irrelevant", and we immediate confuse the two and reverse the order of precedence: good facts are true and relevant, bad facts are false and irrelevant. The two kinds of argument are not compatible in any reasoned debate. First you have to settle on the facts, devoid of moralistic judgments, with "true/false" and "relevant/irrelevant" being decided impartially, disinterestedly. Then you have to apply the facts to sort out the morality, which is seldom as black and white as we humans desperately need it to be. The worst semantic crime of 20th-century English was when we started to use "understand" to denote emotion and "feel" to denote thinking.